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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

Some in this life would have you believe that this fate you cannot evade, for all embody here again, and thus by the law of birth outrun the actions of past lives? Friends, you're reasoning in quicksands which in the end engulf; last night no more returns to earth though followed by countless suns; Neither the soul once freed from clay to a body of clay returns, nor doth the Spirit inhabit again this cast off garment of earth. This is the law; oh mortals learn, all ye who love the true.

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